''Pampa'' is a genus of birds in the hummingbird family
Trochilidae. These species are resident in northern
Middle America.
Species
The genus contains three species.
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Curve-winged sabrewing, ''Pampa curvipennis''
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Wedge-tailed sabrewing, ''Pampa pampa''
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Rufous sabrewing, ''Pampa rufa''
These four species were formerly placed in the genus ''
Campylopterus
The sabrewings are relatively large Neotropical hummingbirds that form the genus ''Campylopterus''. They are species of the understory and edges of forests, mostly in mountains, and often near streams. The female Sabrewing lays its two white eggs ...
''. A
molecular phylogenetic
Molecular phylogenetics () is the branch of phylogeny that analyzes genetic, hereditary molecular differences, predominantly in DNA sequences, to gain information on an organism's evolutionary relationships. From these analyses, it is possible to ...
study published in 2014 found that the genus ''Campylopterus'' was
polyphyletic. In the revised classification to create
monophyletic
In cladistics for a group of organisms, monophyly is the condition of being a clade—that is, a group of taxa composed only of a common ancestor (or more precisely an ancestral population) and all of its lineal descendants. Monophyletic gro ...
genera, these species were moved to the resurrected genus ''Pampa'' that had been introduced in 1854 by
Ludwig Reichenbach
Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach (8 January 1793 – 17 March 1879) was a German botanist and ornithologist. It was he who first requested Leopold Blaschka to make a set of glass marine invertebrate models for scientific education and museu ...
.
References
Pampa (bird)
Bird genera
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